1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Roland Wieser East Germany
Silver	Pyotr Pochenchuk Soviet Union
Bronze	Anatoliy Solomin Soviet Union

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Roland Wieser	East Germany	1:23:11.5	CR
	Pyotr Pochenchuk	Soviet Union	1:23:43.0
	Anatoliy Solomin	Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
4	Boris Yakovlev	Soviet Union	1:24:27.9
5	José Marín	Spain	1:24:38.1
6	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	1:24:57.5
7	Hartwig Gauder	East Germany	1:25:15.7
8	Roberto Buccione	Italy	1:25:40.9
9	Bohdan Bułakowski	Poland	1:25:56.8
10	Bo Gustafsson	Sweden	1:26:13.5
11	Gérard Lelièvre	France	1:26:42.3
12	Alessandro Pezzatini	Italy	1:26:44.2
13	Juraj Benčík	Czechoslovakia	1:27:47.4
14	Svetozár Blažek	Czechoslovakia	1:27:49.3
15	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	1:29:19.7
16	Stanisław Rola	Poland	1:29:22.0
17	Imre Stankovics	Hungary	1:29:33.3
18	Štefan Petrík	Czechoslovakia	1:30:08.4
19	Owe Hemmingsson	Sweden	1:30:44.2
20	Alfons Schwarz	West Germany	1:31:17.6
21	Roger-George Mills	United Kingdom	1:31:52.5
22	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	1:32:08.9
23	Erling Andersen	Norway	1:32:13.0
24	Alf Brandt	Sweden	1:32:41.7
25	Brian Adams	United Kingdom	1:33:08.2
26	Amos Seddom	United Kingdom	1:34:17.8
27	Knut Arne Strømøy	Norway	1:36:01.9
	Dominique Guebey	France	DNF
	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	East Germany	DQ

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

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